Exclusive: The Europe-based Pop Up Film Residency mentorship program has unveiled the filmmakers and mentors who will participate in its summer 2022 edition.
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
The program, which is among a number of feature development initiatives spearheaded by former TorinoFilmLab artistic director Matthieu Darras, consists of three-week residences focused on one project only in different locations across Europe.
Mentors for the upcoming edition include French director Lucile Hadžihalilović, who won San Sebastian’s Special Jury Prize last year for gothic psychological horror Earwig; Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, whose debut film The Heiresses broke out with a Berlinale Silver Bear victory in 2018, and Marie Amachoukeli, a Caméra d’Or winner in 2014 for first film Party Girl, who is currently completing her first solo feature.
Confirmed feature directors joining the programme include Brazil’s Caru Alves de Souza, whose joint work with Raffaella Costa, My Name Is Baghdad won best film in the Berlinale...
- 7/11/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
“Now, we’re producing over 100 projects, we’ve calculated we’ll be working on nearly 130 projects next year to supply both our platform networks,” The Walt Disney Company LatAm’s Leonardo Aranguibel commented at a Ventana Sur panel on Tuesday.
How can Disney try to ensure quality at such a massive production levels? “We look for the best talents, not only in front of the cameras but also behind,” Aranguibel answered.
Most streaming platform execs would say the same.
So showcases like Ventana Sur’s SoloSeries are likely to flower in the next few years. In their first collaboration at SoloSeries, this year Netflix and Ventana Sur are offering Ar$500,000 to the winner among five drama series from upcoming Argentine women creators. In addition, all projects will receive advice on their work from Carolina Leconte, director of original series for Latin America at Netflix.
“To tell authentic, unique stories, it...
How can Disney try to ensure quality at such a massive production levels? “We look for the best talents, not only in front of the cameras but also behind,” Aranguibel answered.
Most streaming platform execs would say the same.
So showcases like Ventana Sur’s SoloSeries are likely to flower in the next few years. In their first collaboration at SoloSeries, this year Netflix and Ventana Sur are offering Ar$500,000 to the winner among five drama series from upcoming Argentine women creators. In addition, all projects will receive advice on their work from Carolina Leconte, director of original series for Latin America at Netflix.
“To tell authentic, unique stories, it...
- 12/1/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
From Thierry Fremaux’s Cannes Film Week, Netflix Support & Buzz Titles: 10 Takes on Ventana Sur 2021
The Cannes Festival’s greatest industry achievement in the last decade, apart from maintaining the global preeminence of its Riviera-set meet, is Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur. Launched in 2009 by the Cannes Festival and Market, in partnership with Argentina’s Incaa film-tv agency, it became from its very get-go the biggest film industry event in Latin America.
Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, this year’s event is based out of Buenos Aires’ Hotel Madero, which will host the meet’s conferences. Works in progress in sections – Primer Corte, Blood Window, Animation! and so on – screen at the nearby Cinemark Puerto Madero multiplex, others online.
The event itself is caught, however, in a maelstrom of still roiling Covid-19 and tectonic shifts in international industry business models, the former obliging it to adopt a hybrid online/in-person format for this year’s meet. 10 Takes as Ventana Sur lifts off this Monday Nov. 29 in Buenos...
Running Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, this year’s event is based out of Buenos Aires’ Hotel Madero, which will host the meet’s conferences. Works in progress in sections – Primer Corte, Blood Window, Animation! and so on – screen at the nearby Cinemark Puerto Madero multiplex, others online.
The event itself is caught, however, in a maelstrom of still roiling Covid-19 and tectonic shifts in international industry business models, the former obliging it to adopt a hybrid online/in-person format for this year’s meet. 10 Takes as Ventana Sur lifts off this Monday Nov. 29 in Buenos...
- 11/29/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In a clear indication of its record growth and that of the region’s burgeoning film and TV industry, Chile’s Sanfic Industria wrapped Thursday Nov. 4 with an avalanche of prizes, 49 in total, for its multiple participants in the various sections, which included series and for films, works in progress, documentary and fiction project labs, and the revved up Sanfic-Morbido production lab.
In one of the biggest awards, four features in post production are chosen to segue from Santiago Industria to the Cannes Film Market as part of a Sanfic Goes to Cannes showcase. Selected titles take in crime thriller “B&e,” from Chile’s Tomás Gonzalez Matos; “Ghost Project,” Chilean producer director Roberto Doveris’ follow-up to “Las Plantas”; “The Barbaric,” Argentine Andrew Salas’ buzzed up cattle ranch-set portrait of Argentine barbarism; and indigenous adventure “Back to the Sea of My Deceased,” from Esteban García Garzón.
Outside this big prize,...
In one of the biggest awards, four features in post production are chosen to segue from Santiago Industria to the Cannes Film Market as part of a Sanfic Goes to Cannes showcase. Selected titles take in crime thriller “B&e,” from Chile’s Tomás Gonzalez Matos; “Ghost Project,” Chilean producer director Roberto Doveris’ follow-up to “Las Plantas”; “The Barbaric,” Argentine Andrew Salas’ buzzed up cattle ranch-set portrait of Argentine barbarism; and indigenous adventure “Back to the Sea of My Deceased,” from Esteban García Garzón.
Outside this big prize,...
- 11/5/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente, Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has signaled its strong commitment to Latin American television content by teaming up with the region’s most important confab, Ventana Sur, on its TV strand, SoloSeries.
For the first time, Ventana Sur and Netflix have joined forces to provide more impetus to women creators with a cash incentive of $5,000. This will be awarded to one project selected out of five SoloSeries participating projects in development by Argentine women creators. In addition, Carolina Leconte, Netflix director of original series for Latin America, will be mentoring on the participating projects.
Among the five projects is absurdist comedy “My Queen” by Marlene Grinberg, which tackles the issues of motherhood, children, sex and Judaism. It also participates in Ventana Sur’s pitching sessions.
SoloSeries aims to gather the most notable series and microseries in Latin America and serves as a networking hub for showrunners, screenwriters and producers.
The event will include conferences...
For the first time, Ventana Sur and Netflix have joined forces to provide more impetus to women creators with a cash incentive of $5,000. This will be awarded to one project selected out of five SoloSeries participating projects in development by Argentine women creators. In addition, Carolina Leconte, Netflix director of original series for Latin America, will be mentoring on the participating projects.
Among the five projects is absurdist comedy “My Queen” by Marlene Grinberg, which tackles the issues of motherhood, children, sex and Judaism. It also participates in Ventana Sur’s pitching sessions.
SoloSeries aims to gather the most notable series and microseries in Latin America and serves as a networking hub for showrunners, screenwriters and producers.
The event will include conferences...
- 10/30/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) has unveiled the full list of series projects set to pitch at its upcoming Sanfic Series sidebar, running under the festival’s Sanfic Industria banner Oct. 27-Nov. 5.
“Receiving these fiction series projects from all the countries of the Southern Cone has been extremely gratifying and demonstrates the potential of the region in terms of creative avant-garde. Our role at Series Lab is to create a bridge to channel that potential and bring it closer to the industry,” said Alejandra Marano, Sanfic Series coordinator and Lab mentor.
In addition to the six featured projects, two other series – Paula Parra’s “Allende Pum” and Sofía Corso’s “Fugitivas” – have also been invited to participate at the Sanfic Series workshops.
2021 Sanfic Series Participants
“The Rise of Elisa Lynch” Dir: Tbc
Set near the end of the 19th century, “The Rise of Elisa Lynch” is conceived as...
“Receiving these fiction series projects from all the countries of the Southern Cone has been extremely gratifying and demonstrates the potential of the region in terms of creative avant-garde. Our role at Series Lab is to create a bridge to channel that potential and bring it closer to the industry,” said Alejandra Marano, Sanfic Series coordinator and Lab mentor.
In addition to the six featured projects, two other series – Paula Parra’s “Allende Pum” and Sofía Corso’s “Fugitivas” – have also been invited to participate at the Sanfic Series workshops.
2021 Sanfic Series Participants
“The Rise of Elisa Lynch” Dir: Tbc
Set near the end of the 19th century, “The Rise of Elisa Lynch” is conceived as...
- 10/20/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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